It's raining projectiles

[scotty73]

Anyone know what these are?



All found around my car this morning.

[steve_earwig]

Bits of fireworks? Dangerous things, should be banned.

The wind blew a tile off of the new roof on the firehouse here the other day, there were bits of it all around the yoyo but I can't see any damage.

[scotty73]

Bits of fireworks? Dangerous things, should be banned.

Correct, the one on the right is a 4" long 4mm solid tube that was found just in front of my bonnet not sure if it hit my car or house but ffs sending a 4 inch tube into outer space it's gonna f*cking come down on something or even worse SOMEONE.
I can't stress how hard the thing is it's manslaughter waiting to happen.

[Welly]

Last year (or the one before, who knows) I set off a rocket in my Garden (I like to live dangerously)......it was a still night, the moonlight was glistening in her...ooh hold on....ermm...... well what I meant was this 'ere rocket, once depleted, took a sinister return route and landed right next to us (think it brushed my shoulder) anyhoo I remember thinking if I'd have been gazing skyward then it could've got me eye.

So yes round here the last few days the streets are littered with sticks and funny tubes just like those. Money to burn? yes it seems so.

[steve_earwig]

it was a still night, the moonlight was glistening in her...ooh hold on

Reminds me of that Pete & Dud:
Oh dear old Flo,
I love you so
especially in your nightie.
When the moonlight flits,
across your tits,
Oh Jesus Christ almighty...

[Sonia406]

I've been saying for years now they should not be sold to the general public whatsoever. Sure, do a display and make them cheap enough that people don't risk knock off fireworks but there is no way members of the public should be able to buy fireworks...

Do you know who I feel sorry for, it's not the loonatics who set them off wrong or go back to a lit firework because it's their own stupid fault for messing with explosives. It's the already stretched NHS, struggling with any day of the years medical care then for 'this time of year' idiots to think, I know what I'll do. I'll buy a dangerous explosive because it's pretty and fun or what ever runs through their thoughtless pig headed minds.

[Welly]

I don't think you'd have enjoyed hanging round with me and my mates at school in the 80's.........we used to get mini-rockets, light them, but hold onto the stick as long as possible! we used to set them off horizontally, we 'opened' fireworks to get the gunpowder out then lit small batches in the palm of the hand (makes your skin contract and go weird). The Brother of my mate Craig made his own firework once from the innards of others and set it off outside school one afternoon

Then once we got a supply of 'Crow Scarers' that Farmers use on the fields......I dropped a lit one down the pole of a road sign and heard it drop into water......thought that was that.... until it exploded and forced a column of water skywards followed by an enormous bang....and four wet teenagers..........happy days

[scotty73]

I don't think you'd have enjoyed hanging round with me and my mates at school in the 80's........

What 5 year old would?

[Sonia406]

I don't think you'd have enjoyed hanging round with me and my mates at school in the 80's........

What 5 year old would?

I was born mid 80's so umm at a guess I probably wasn't even born when you were hanging around

Boys will be boys, tut tut!

[Ares]

hahah Well you crazy man...like to live dangerously

[trufflehunt]

When I was a kid in the 60's, our little 'housing scheme' of 60 or 70 families would build a bonfire on some waste
ground over several weeks on the run-up to 5th November. On the night we'd all gather, and watch from a few yards
as fireworks were set off. Families brought mostly their own fireworks.

I don't recall any injuries.

Nowadays, in my local village, of 4000, they have some fairgroundy attractions, a massive beer tent,
and a paid-for, firework display, of industrial strength fireworks.., set off from behind a large fence 100 yards away.

Think I preferred it when I was a kid really. I have little time for all the regulated, regimented thing.

[davew]

we used to get a length of drain pipe about 4" long bung a rag in one end light a rocket and drop it in....homemade bazooka , you had to be quick with the loading
years ago my mate thought it was funny to drop a banger down a toilet where we where staying and it shattered the base of the toilet, he didn't find it so funny when they charged him £500 for a new toilet and the call out for a plumber.

[mjb]

I don't think you'd have enjoyed hanging round with me and my mates at school in the 80's.........we used to get mini-rockets, light them, but hold onto the stick as long as possible! we used to set them off horizontally, we 'opened' fireworks to get the gunpowder out then lit small batches in the palm of the hand (makes your skin contract and go weird). The Brother of my mate Craig made his own firework once from the innards of others and set it off outside school one afternoon

I'd expect that to elicit an armed response from your local anti-terrorism department nowadays...

[steve_earwig]

I thought crow scarers were made illegal in the UK yonks back and you can only buy those useless things that give a weak fart when they go off.

No November blitz here but it'll get worse towards New Year's (with kids walking up and down the road here letting off bangers that certainly aren't weak farts which terrifies the retrievers who don't realise their meant to be gun dogs , I keep listening for screams but... )

[Welly]

I let off a Crow Scarer inside our garage once, I guess I was about 14, so was dead clever.......there was an almighty BANG and I was stood with ears ringing, slightly shocked, with a smoke-filled Garage and an impending return home by my Father at any moment I'm not sure what I was expecting to happen but it was pretty much the opposite in every respect.